bethling

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by bethling 2y ago
I don't know if that will happen. A lot of the cloud heavy offices moved to shared desks for engineers, so there's only a desk for 2 days/week, so they don't have enough space available for everyone to return full time
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by bethling 3y ago
My experience (at least in the US and UK) is the opposite. A pumpkin is a very particular (usually round and orange) type of squash. Squash is the generic term for most of the vegetables (both winter and summer variety) that are eaten.
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by bethling 4y ago
From my time with Amazon's payments team, they do. However they do like not depending on any one particular provider, and being able to spread the payments to different providers does give them leverage to negotiate rates from a stron
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by bethling 4y ago
But Pathfinder depends on the SRDs under the 1.0 OGL - these changes would require Paizo to accept the new terms to publish anything new for 2e (or create a 3e that doesn't build off the D20 SRDs)
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by bethling 4y ago
I think also what happens is that some people feel that the comparison is between doing everything from scratch and taking a couple shortcuts. Sure - not using jarred garlic or some other timesaver won't taste as good as starting with
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by bethling 4y ago
At least for me, when I put in my address, it finds a similarly named, but incorrect address. Makes it a little hard to use :-/
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by bethling 4y ago
And France, which is a presidential system, is not a two party system, with a large number of parties represented in their legislature. They have a different election system than the US.
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by bethling 4y ago
I've been at only one company where "unlimited PTO" was really treated close to that way. There were offices in San Francisco and Paris, and the CEO was French (and based in the US). The US office had untracked PTO, and from
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by bethling 5y ago
Interesting -- I got quite a bit up until 3 or 4 years ago, but it's essentially vanished for me. Not sure which cases they've cleaned up, and which ones they haven't I guess.
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by bethling 5y ago
You also run into the situation where banks check your credit/banking history and may deny you an account based on that. My partner couldn't open a bank account for years because they forgot to stop an auto payment after they cl
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by bethling 6y ago
This makes me sad. When I was working on a startup with a hardware component, Fry’s was the place where I was able to wander and find pieces that would help me build what I needed. And then I’d find something else that would help inspire a
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by bethling 7y ago
They tested Waymo out in Kirkland Washington for a bit. It doesn't have snow, but I'm sure they got a lot of data about wet conditions.
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by bethling 7y ago
The thing that caught my attention and I found useful enough to really give SublimeText a chance was the mini-map. I see that in a lot of places now, but as far as I can recall, the first place I saw it was ST.
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by bethling 7y ago
My experience at most tech companies (Amazon, Google, etc), to become a manager you need to demonstrate that you have the technical ability to perform at senior(ish) level IC before you become a manager. i.e. You go from L5 IC to L5 Manage
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by bethling 7y ago
Having been a Senior IC and a Manager at a couple of big companies, I agree that that promotion is probably easier as a manager, but I worked with orgs/teams that had multiple senior staff/director-level ICs, but only 1 senior man
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by bethling 7y ago
Take a look at what Deliveroo is doing with their "Editions" brand. They get some space, set up small takeout only kitchens and enable a restaurant to expand their delivery range (different neighborhoods or even cities). https:&
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by bethling 7y ago
This is very true - at one point when I worked at Amazon, my manager told me that if I was already the next level, I'd easily be exceeding expectations. But the work I was doing wouldn't actually get me there. It ran contrary to
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by bethling 7y ago
This is very true. I left Amazon in 2014, by that time I had to explain why (at least twice a year) I had some services that could not feasibly be moved to AWS. At least in the org I was a part of, that they were not running on AWS stoo
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by bethling 8y ago
Without considering traffic it's not overly useful for me. When I put in my address, some of the places it tells me I could reach in an hour, I'd be lucky to reach in 2 most times of the day.
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by bethling 8y ago
iOS has something similar - called 'Night Shift'. I think he's talking about having a theme that is a dark background rather than a light/white one, though.
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by bethling 9y ago
It's still really important. There's a cost to training and getting an engineer to understand the problems and scale that Google faces (some might come in with that, but many do not). There's also domain/google speci
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by bethling 9y ago
To be fair, a lot of that can depend on your manager. Your manager (should) have a better perspective on what resonates with the committees, help you gather/frame the data, and polish the package. Google managers might not be the ones
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by bethling 9y ago
I actually find the opposite. :) Google Map's estimates tend to be close for my work commute (within 5-10 minutes). Waze on the other hand will often give me an estimate that's 20 minutes faster than Google Maps, and with the t
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by bethling 11y ago
That's not completely true. Amazon's offers/pay isn't tied to the cost of living of an area, but to the cost of labor in that area. When I had an engineer transfer from Seattle to San Francisco there was an adjustment
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by bethling 11y ago
I'm the same way. Until someone loaned me a copy of Effective C++, I simply hacked code. The best practices in that book opened my mind a great deal, and really started me down the path to developing software and building systems.
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by bethling 11y ago
Until I met my wife, I hadn't realized exactly the fortune I had with my family. My parents were teachers and really understood the value of education. We came from a modest background, but it was stable and they did push me to focus
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by bethling 11y ago
This is very true, it's something that I've never done well, and have always been really uncomfortable doing. When being a hiring manager, I always expect the candidate to make significant counter offers, but it's not someth
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by bethling 11y ago
I don't know. When I made the decision to leave Amazon, my offers at Facebook and Apple were less than what I was making at Amazon. Google was only slightly more.
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by bethling 12y ago
I worked for two companies in 2000-2002 that went belly up. I was lucky to not be unemployed too long during that time, but it just reinforced that I was lucky to even have a job. I didn't even think about negotiating an offer until r
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